Skid Pan Courses

Kingy · 19 Jun 2006 at 09:20

Hi all,

Anyone been on one of these? Is there a specific school that is particularly good?

What should I be looking to pay?

Xplode · 19 Jun 2006 at 09:52

I have a skid pan course to book. I got it for my birthday and it includes a advanced driving course.
Unlike most skid pan courses the one I have got they used normal cars and not the ones with extra wheels, this will give a more realistic feel..
The price was £275 for a all day course..the advanced driving course is in your own car and you do a little track followed by road driving.

Must remember to book it..

thebrasso · 19 Jun 2006 at 09:59

There is a decent skid pan at Hixon near Stafford that Staffordshire Police use. I had an go through my IAM group but I think you could probably email Staffordshire Police and ask them for details.

saitrix · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:18

I went to http://www.skidcontrolcentre.co.uk/ and found it very good. Only £75 for 3 hours, they teach you for the first 1.5hours on the skid pan in fwd (1.3 escort) and a rwd (2.0 sierra). Then they just handed the cars over to you for the last half, where they wernt in the car with you. So you get to practise without them and try anything you like. Drifting became order of the day in the sierra.

Damn it was fun. If you can get about 4-6 of you to go, then you will have the whole place to yourself.

Did get a few vids of me going round.

May have to find them.

Kingy · 21 Jun 2006 at 15:12

saitrix said:
I went to http://www.skidcontrolcentre.co.uk/ and found it very good. Only £75 for 3 hours, they teach you for the first 1.5hours on the skid pan in fwd (1.3 escort) and a rwd (2.0 sierra). Then they just handed the cars over to you for the last half, where they wernt in the car with you. So you get to practise without them and try anything you like. Drifting became order of the day in the sierra. Damn it was fun. If you can get about 4-6 of you to go, then you will have the whole place to yourself.

Did get a few vids of me going round. May have to find them.

Forgot all about this.

That seems cheap! I take it that it's just good value rather than a compromised course then?

saitrix · 21 Jun 2006 at 15:54

Well in my opinion the most important thing is to just get use to controlling a car in ultra low grip situations. They showed you how to cadence brake, plus how to turn both a rwd and a fwd car in low grip. Then the rest i carried on doing those sort of things but also got to experiment with things on my own. So i tried handbrake turning and controlling the rear end of a rwd car.

Im looking at maybe going this summer again.